The Human Stain
2003
**
Director: Robert Benton
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris, Wentworth Miller, Gary Sinise
An aging college professor, who has been living a lie for most of his life, loses his job over semantics. He then finds solace in another troubled soul, a considerably younger custodial worker. Philip Roth's complex novel has been given a rushed, confusing and lightweight adaptation. Hopkins and Kidman are badly miscast and the novel's narrator has been turned into a character who is nothing but an observer.
